Mechanical movement



G. F. RYAN MECHANICAL MOVEMENT June 9, 1942.

Filed Jan. 27, 1940 3 Sheets-Sheet l June 9, 1942. e. -F. RYAN 2,285,534

' MECHANICAL MOVEMENT Filed Jan. 2'7, 1940 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 ivvENmfgv June 9, 1942. e. F. WAN

MECHANICAL MOVEMENT Filed Jan. 27, 1940 a Sheets-Sheet s 5 Patented June 9, 1942 r uNiTso stares e ress MECHANICAL MOVEMENT George F. Ryan, Peabody, Mass, assignor to United Shoe Machinery Corporation, Borough of Flemington, N. J., a corporation of New Jersey v Application January 27, 1940, Serial No. 315,951 I l 6 Claims. (Cl. 7425) FFHQE This invention relates to a mechanical moveanisms, such as used in presses of various types. ment and is herein illustrated as embodied in a As shown, toggles ill and I2, which are secured mechanism for transmitting motion between to a base It, are arranged to be driven respecparts of a machine, such as a press. tively by links I S and ll, the inner ends of which It is an object of the invention to provide imsurround an eccentric it carried at the end of a proved mechanism for transmitting motion from shaft 2% The shaft 26 is rotatably mounted in a power source to driven members, which will be a sleeve 22, which in turn is supported in jourespecially eifective and simple in operation, but nals 24 by antifriction bearings 26 (see Fig. 2). at the same time will permit of considerable It is to be noted that the axis of the eccentric flexibilit in the extent of movement produced. 10 i3, when in its inoperative position, coincides To this end, and as illustrated, I have provided with the axis of the sleeve 22 and that the shaft a mechanical movement which comprises a roit is positioned in the sleeve with its axis spaced tary sleeve, a shaft mounted in the sleeve for from the axis of the sleeve by a distance equal rotation with the sleeve and also for rotation to the radius of the eccentric, that is, the disabout its own axis relatively to the sleeve, totance between the axis of the shaft and the axis gether with means normally operative to rotate of the eccentric IS.

the sleeve and shaft as a unit and mechanism The shaft 2i] is connected with a 45 left-hand for rotating the shaft relatively to the sleeve, helical or spiral gear 28 loose on the sleeve 22 by thus to vary the throw of a crank (preferably in means of an Oldham coupling comprising a the form of an eccentric) which is carried by the floating plate 32, having projections 34 engaged shaft and is normally rotated coaxially with the in slots 35 in a disk fast on the end of the sleeve. The mechanism is operated by gears norshaft 26 and projections 38 which engage lugs mally effective to drive the sleeve and shaft as ii) on a hub 12 of the gear 28. The gear 28 is a unit, and is provided with means for varying rotated by a pinion id on a shaft t6, driven by the relative speed of these gears, with the result 1.. means of a belt 38 connected to an electric motor that the throw of the eccentric can be varied 5G. The sleeve 22 is normally adapted to be from zero upwardly and then back to zero to rotated from and in the same direction as the produce power operation of a driven member to gear 28 through a stub shaft 52, which has keyed which it is connected. As the throw of the ecthereto a gear 54 in mesh with the gear 28, and a centric again approaches zero the driven mem- 30 second gear 56 in mesh with a 45 right hand her is slowed down and finally, when the eccenhelical or spiral gear 58, which is keyed to the trio again rotates about the axis of the sleeve, sleeve 22 at 68. Upon rotation of the gear 28, the driven member is held stationary. Thus the the sleeve 22 will be caused torotate with the eccentric operates as a brake, Furthermore, gear 28, carrying the shaft 20 bodily with it. since the operation of the eccentric in producing The net result is that the eccentric, the shaft power operation of the driven member is effected and the sleeve will rotate as a unit about the by variation of the relative speeds of rotating axis of the sleeve. If the eccentric I8 is posimembers, no clutch is required. tioned, as'shown in Fig. 4, concentric with the These and other features of the invention will sleeve 22, this will not cause any movement of be apparent from the following specification, 40 the levers l6 and I I.

when taken in connection with the accompany- In order to cause the eccentric It to serve as a ing drawings, and are pointed out in the claims. crank and therefore to move the levers l6 and In the drawings, I1, I have provided mechanism for causing the 1 is an View, p y in Section, Showing shaft 29 to rotate about its axis relatively to the the construction of the mechanical movement; sleeve 22, with the result that the eccentric will F 2 s a Vi w i s de el a p y in secbe moved from its position concentric with the tion, of a portion of the mechanism shown in axis of the sleeve. In order to accomplish this, Fig. 1; the shaft 52 is arranged for sliding movement in F 3 i a di r mm tic view illustrating the its bearings 62 and 64. During movement of the relation of driving gears and the driven memshaft to the right, as in Fig. 2, the gear 54 will bers; and be caused to rotate slower than normally, due to Fig.4 is a perspective view illustrating parts of the fact that as the teeth of the gear 54 are the mechanical movement. drawn over those of the gear 28, the gear 54 will Fig. 1 illustrates the invention as applied to a have imparted to it an additional rotative movemechanical movement for actuating toggle mech- 55 ment, opposite in direction to its normal movement, thus causing the shaft 52 and the gear 56 to rotate at lower speed. Similarly, the movement of the teeth of the gear 56 past the teeth of the gear 58 will cause the latter to rotate at a still lower speed. The gears 53 and 28 no longer rotate at the same speed. Since the gear 58 is keyed to the sleeve 22 and the gear 23 is connected to the shaft 29 by the Oldham coupling, the shaft 20 is rotated relatively to the sleeve 22, thus moving the eccentric [3 about the axis of the shaft to a position dependent upon the extent of lengthwise movement of the shaft 52 and causing the eccentric to assume the position of a crank relatively to the axis of the sleeve 22. After the shaft 52 has ceased to move, the shaft 20 and the sleeve 22 will again rotate at the same speed and the eccentric will continue to revolve in its new position. The reverse of this action takes place when the shaft 52 is moved in the opposite direction, that is, to the left in Fig. 2.

The movement of the shaft 52 is conveniently accomplished by means of a yoke 63 loose upon the shaft and positioned between twostops 68 thereon, there being ball bearings 10 between the yoke and the stops to reduce friction.

It is to be noted that the force required in moving the shaft 52 in either direction is small as compared to the force applied to the eccentric 18, in view of the fact that the eccentric is moved in or out by the force applied b the driving gear 44 to the gear 28. The force required to move the shaft 52 is only substantially that required to overcome friction of the bearings of the shaft and to overcome the inertia in increasing or decreasing the speed of the sleeve 22, Looked at from another point of view, the shaft 20 may be said to rotate once about its own axis while rotating once about the axis of the sleeve 22 at all times except while the shaft is being moved lengthwise. Lengthwise movement of the shaft 52 destroys the synchrcnism of these two movements thus rotating the shaft 28 relatively to the sleeve 22 which at all times rotates at the same speed as the speed of rotation of the shaft 20 about the axis of the sleeve 22.

The mechanism above described is adapted to various modes of operation, depending upon the extent and rapidity of the movement of the shaft 52 in a longitudinal direction. If the shaft is moved slowly toward the right in Fig. 2, the effective throw of the eccentric will gradually be increased, and, when the movement of the shaft ceases, the eccentric will continue to revolve in its new position, causing a repetition of the cycle of movements transmitted to the levers i and I1. If, however, the shaft 52 is moved quickly to the right and then to the left, the movement being completed during a single rotation of the gear 28, the eccentric will be moved outward into its position of maximum effective throw, and then back to its inoperative position in which its axis is in line with the axis of the sleeve 22, thus causing a single operative movement of the levers I6 and 1?. The lateral extent of the movement of the shaft 52 will determine the maximum effective throw of the eccentric it, thus providing a simple control by which the throw can be varied as conditions require.

Having described m invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A mechanical movement comprising a rotatable sleeve, a shaft carried by the sleeve and mounted for rotation about its own axis and for movement bodily about the axis of the sleeve, a

crank carried by the shaft and normally extending radially of the sleeve and having its radius equal to the distance between the axis of the shaft and the axis of the sleeve, gears normally operative to cause angular movement of the shaft about its own axis and bodily movement of the shaft about the axis of the sleeve at the same speed thereby to rotate the crank on the axis of the sleeve, and means associated with the gears for varying their relative speeds of rotation thereby to cause the crank to revolve bodily about the axis of the sleeve.

2. A mechanical movement comprising a rotatable sleeve, a shaft mounted in the sleeve for rotation about an axis eccentric to the axis of the sleeve, an eccentric carried by the shaft, a gear for rotating the shaft, a second gear operatively connected to the first-mentioned gear for rotating the sleeve at the same speed in the same direction as the shaft thereby to rotate the eccentric about the axis of the sleeve, and means for varying the relative speeds of rotation of the gears and thereby to vary the relative speed of rotation of the shaft and sleeve thereby to vary the throw of the eccentric.

3. A mechanical movement comprising a rotary sleeve, a shaft mounted for rotation in the sleeve about an axis eccentric to the axis of the sleeve and for rotation with the sleeve, an eccentric carried by the shaft, a helical gear loosely mounted upon the sleeve, means for operatively connecting the gear and shaft to produce rotation of the shaft at the same speed as the gear, a second helical gear fast upon the sleeve, a shaft mounted on the frame of the machine and having two helical pinions respectively making engagement with the gears upon the sleeve, and means for moving the last-named shaft in a longitudinal direction to effect rotation of the sleeve and shaft at different speeds thereby rotating the eccentric about the axis of the first-named shaft to vary the throw of the eccentric relatively to the axis of the sleeve.

l. A mechanical movement comprising a rotatable sleeve, a shaft mounted in the sleeve for angular movement therewith bodily about the axis of the sleeve, a helical gear loosely mounted on the sleeve and operatively connected to the shaft, an eccentric on the shaft, means for rotating the gear to cause rotation of the shaft and eccentric, a second helical gear secured to the sleeve, another shaft, helical pinions secured thereto and having teeth respectively in mesh with the helical gears to effect rotation of the sleeve, and means for moving the last-named shaft longitudinally of its axis to effect variation in the speed of rotation of the sleeve relatively to the speed of rotation of the first-named shaft upon its axis thereby to vary the throw of the eccentric.

5. A mechanical movement comprising a shaft, an eccentric carried by the shaft, means mounting the shaft for revolution bodily about an axis normally coinciding with the axis of the eccentric and for rotation about its own axis, driving means for causing angular movement of the shaft about the two axes at the same angular velocity and in the same direction thereby to effect rotation of the eccentric about its axis, and means associated with the driving means for varying the relative velocities of the shaft about the two axes thereby to effect rotation of the eccentric about an axis other than its own.

6. A mechanical movement comprising a rotatable sleeve, a shaft mounted in the sleeve for movement bodily about the axis of the sleeve upon rotation of the latter, an eccentric carried by the shaft and normally positioned so that its axis coincides with the axis of the sleeve, driving means for rotating the sleeve and the shaft about 5 their respective axes at the same angular velocity and in the same direction thereby to efiect rota- 

